And more Google/Clickfraud news: Last May Google “quietly” won a judgment against former AdSense partner Auction Sense. As you all know, Google and others are being sued for click fraud, SearchBlog reader Eric Goldman has an analysis here.

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Interesting blog. I am Google fan, and this site is absolutely juicy! [I tried to blog Google with http://welovegoogle.blogspot.com, but life's been keeping me away from my blogs. :)]

ANYHOO.

I am very interested in your upcoming title, “The Search”. I work in the TV industry. During one of my research project on the future of TV last September, I had an epiphany: WHAT IF GOOGLE MARRIES TV? What a myriad of possibilities lies in that land?

There is more that I have to say on this subject, which is better discussed off the public. I’d be glad to bounce off the idea with you. I have a feeling that it will beef up “The Search” by offering an exciting possibility to the world of search and TV.

1. I just filed my first click fraud complaint with Overture after nearly a year of advertising with both them and Google. I still stand much closer to Google/Overture’s side on the issue. When it is click fraud, it is obvious. My CTR went from .3% to 13% (yes, that’s thirteen percent) after a month of having the same ad running at the same bid/positions. Even worse, it had a higher CTR when it was in 2nd position.

2. Google’s toolbar was the best tool I had as a webmaster/blogger to do research, and a mac/firefox version that’s as well supported as the windows IE version would make me switch back from all of my other tools so I hope this happens.